SIALKOT: An anti-terrorism court handed down death sentence on four counts and 30-year hard jail to a convict police inspector in a murder case of two Daska-based senior lawyers on Thursday.

The court ordered Shahzad Warraich to pay Rs400,000 as financial compensation to the families of the two slain lawyers.

Judge Chaudhry Imtiaz Ahmed awarded death sentence on two counts under section 302 of the PPC and another two counts under 7-ATA to the convict.

According to the prosecution, the convict police inspector had shot dead Daska Bar Association president Rana Khalid Abbas and senior lawyer Muhammad Irfan Chohan in front of the main gate of the Daska City police station on May 25, 2015, when lawyers clashed with tehsil municipal workers over some issue and allegedly abused police when it intervened.

Published in Dawn, January 15th, 2016